Chapter 43: Sandstorms and Tornadoes

  A terrible thing appeared on Liu Qi's radar, and that was the wind.

  Can wind be seen? In fact, it can, and it can be seen in the Sahara Desert. A sandstorm with a height of several hundred meters is rolling in with strong winds, mixed with yellow soil and sand particles, closely following Kechi's armored vehicle. What made Liu Qi feel incredible was that there was also a 100-meter-long tornado in front of the sandstorm. The rotating tornado swept everything on the ground.

  "This is still a living hell. I even encountered such a thing, it seems that my luck is really bad." Liu Qi cursed in his heart.

  Yes, sandstorms are usually formed on hot days when there is a big temperature difference between the air and the ground. And it also needs sufficient sunlight. However, these past few days have been very cool, not suitable for strong winds at all. Plus, it's still early in the year, the temperature isn't high yet. Anyway, this is just how it is, unpredictable weather in the desert. If we encounter a sandstorm, we can just hide and wait, no big deal if we're delayed for a few days.

  But the appearance of the tornado was a bit unbearable for Liu Qi, who had seen many Hollywood blockbusters in his previous life and knew a lot about tornadoes. A tornado is a strong, small-scale air vortex that occurs under extremely unstable weather conditions, produced by strong convective movements of air, extending from the base of thunderstorm clouds to the ground in the form of a funnel-shaped cloud (tornado), producing strong winds that can reach above level 12, with maximum speeds of over 100 meters per second, usually accompanied by thunderstorms and sometimes hail.

  In addition, Liu Qi's previous life was studying architectural engineering, and he also had a high understanding of the anti-wind requirements for various buildings. The levels of various meteorological disasters were well-known to him. Looking at the momentum of this tornado, it's likely to be level F5.

  An F5 tornado is jokingly called "the finger of God" by scientists, meaning that God uses his fingers to flip the earth. In short, wherever it sweeps, nothing can be spared. If a house is blown away, it will be uprooted.

  But what Liu Qi couldn't understand was that tornadoes are usually over the sea or near the coast. Never heard of a tornado in the middle of a vast desert! Looks like the armored vehicle following Kaito must have been blown away by this guy. This time, they're definitely going to be played to death.

  At this time, a severe headache struck, and Liu Qi could no longer feel the radar in his brain. The uninterrupted pain was like several steel needles piercing his head, making Liu Qi thoroughly experience the treatment of Sun Wukong's Tightening Spell. Liu Qi was in so much pain that he started rolling on the ground like Wukong.

  The officers standing by were all staring blankly at Liu Qi, thinking to themselves that the lieutenant colonel had gone mad, or perhaps been bitten by a snake. The doctor, however, remained calm and quickly directed several people to hold down Liu Qi, then pressed his hands against Liu Qi's head, using his fingers to lightly tap the back of his brain. Strangely enough, as the doctor moved his hands, the pain in Liu Qi's head eased significantly.

  Liu Qi struggled to get up from the ground and shouted to the crowd "Run, run, run fast." But no sound came out of his mouth.

  The people around him looked at Liu Qi in confusion, unable to speak. The doctor beside him said, "Colonel, you just had a stroke. Now rest for a while and you'll be fine. Don't make any big movements now."

  Liu Qi didn't care about those things, still shouting with a long mouth "Run, run, hurry up." But he still couldn't make a sound. Finally, Liu Qi was anxious and started writing on the sandy ground with his hand.

  On the ground was written 'Run quickly, get on the truck, scatter and run, there is a tornado ahead'. The doctor and other officers finally understood what was going on and hastily ordered the soldiers to rush towards the trucks. The doctor and Major Beck also helped Liu Qi onto the jeep. Nothing else could be taken care of, including the 4 40mm infantry guns that had rendered great service.

  At this time, a strong wind also started blowing outside the car. From the rearview mirror of the car, Liu Qi saw the sandstorm that covered the sky and the tornado with a diameter of hundreds of meters rushing straight towards him.

  The party guard officer driving the car was also fighting for his life, both hands tightly grasping the steering wheel, one foot pressing the accelerator all the way down. At this point, no one could care about anyone else, and the cars in the convoy were heading in different directions. The chaotic vehicles were running everywhere, and Liu Qi saw from the rearview mirror of the jeep that the 40-caliber cannons that were behind them just now were like toys being blown into the air by the tornado, while the tornado was tossing those 40-caliber cannons up and down like a child.

  At this time, Liu Qi had no other thoughts, only hoping to run as far and fast as possible. But how could the speed of the Jeep compare with that of a tornado? The Jeep could only keep changing direction. However, Liu Qi desperately discovered that the tornado was not going in any other direction, every time the Jeep changed direction, the tornado stopped and then adjusted its direction towards the Jeep. As a result, all the other vehicles were safe, consistently running in the direction away from the Jeep. Some even drove directly into the massive sandstorm.

  Although the sandstorm is also very dangerous, it may be a narrow escape from death. But if you are swept away by the tornado, that would be certain death. When the tornado caught up with the jeep, Liu Qi envied those people in the vehicles covered by the sandstorm.

  As the jeep's butt was blown up by a tornado, the people on board experienced what it's like to be on a high-speed spinning roller coaster. The few people in the car all cried out in unison, "Ah, ah!"

  Liu Qi had also sat with a female classmate on a roller coaster when he was in college. Liu Qi couldn't understand why the "weak and soft-voiced" girl would be so enthusiastic about such a dangerous and stimulating activity, and would face the weightlessness of the roller coaster with a loud "ah" "ah". However, Liu Qi still enjoyed the feeling of the very beautiful female classmate closing her eyes tightly, holding his arm tightly, and the warmth and softness from the girl's chest transmitted to his arm. But that beautiful female classmate went abroad soon after, leaving only a good memory for Liu Qi.

  Liu Qi's jeep is now experiencing the thrill of centrifugal force under the powerful leadership of a 150-meter-per-second rotating wind. Several people are simultaneously holding onto the car's handrails, using their hoarse and heartfelt screams to resist the power of the tornado. However, the screams of several people compared to the roar of the tornado are as powerless as the white walls on the street at night against the black pen in the hands of a fake certificate maker.

  Liu Qi's body had been completely sucked out of the car by the power of the wind, with only his right hand still tightly grasping a metal handle on top of the Jeep. Unfortunately, one end of the metal handle's screw was slowly being pulled out by Liu Qi's bodily strength. The entire process kept Liu Qi's eyes fixed on it without blinking. The remaining screw didn't even give Liu Qi a chance to see how it was pulled out before he was swept into the eye of the tornado while still gripping the metal handle.

  Several people in the car saw this and shouted loudly "Zhōng Xiào..."

  As Liu Qi was swept into the eye of the storm, flying higher and higher, the tornado column below miraculously weakened, and not only that, but it also twisted its butt and changed direction towards the sandstorm.

  The weakened wind could no longer move the jeep, so the jeep made a high-difficulty rotation and landed motion, burying itself in a tall sand dune. The doctor and Major Beck were also thrown out of the vehicle, but the most unfortunate was the SS officer who was driving, he was trapped in the driver's cab, directly following the jeep crash into the sand dune, the huge force pressed him onto the steering wheel, and he stopped breathing at that moment. Then a sky-covering sandstorm immediately covered everything here.

  No mention of the people struggling in the sandstorm. Only Liu Qi was blown into the air by the wind, and Liu Qi thought that even American-made products would have counterfeits. Otherwise, how could hands fall off? Looking at the raging wind eye, accompanied by lightning from time to time, with the light of the lightning, Liu Qi saw that there were indeed all sorts of things inside the wind eye. In the yellow sand and dust, various wooden fragments, metal fragments, and stone fragments formed a piece of sharp blades, cutting everything that entered the wind eye into pieces.

  Liu Qi's heart was thoroughly chilled, and to avoid being hit by various debris in the eye of the storm would be more difficult than winning a 5 million yuan jackpot. Liu Qi subconsciously chose to faint, and before he fainted, he used all his strength to shout "Tornado, I'm coming..."

  Liu Qi, who had fainted, was blown directly in front of the various fragments. In an instant, all the clothes on Liu Qi's body were torn to dust, including his underwear. At this time, Liu Qi became truly naked.

  But just as the fragments came into contact with Liu Qi's skin, a strange thing happened. Every fragment that touched Liu Qi's skin did not scratch his skin, but instead turned to powder itself. At this time, if someone could observe Liu Qi at close range, they would find that Liu Qi's entire body had emitted a white light, which was only a few millimeters long. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it at all.

  It was this beam of light that looked like a layer of white fur that blocked all the fragments' attacks for Liu Qi, and every object that touched this beam of light was instantly shattered.

  The book implies that this light is actually a power of contract. And the person who made this contract was Moses' soul in the temple mentioned earlier. Moses used his exhausted soul energy to write down the contract for Liu Qi before he saved the Jews according to the contract. The power of the contract would protect Liu Qi from external harm, which was originally a good thing. However, if Liu Qi deliberately did not fulfill the contract and let the Jews be slaughtered, then the other side of the contract would appear, and Liu Qi's fate would be very miserable, that is, his soul would suffer eternal burning pain. In short, he could neither live nor die.

  Liu Qi was thus swept up by the whirlwind and flew in the sky, completing humanity's great dream of flying without any external force for the first time.

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  This year, just after the spring began, I experienced two big sandstorms. After feeling a sense of regret, I wrote this chapter. I hope that in the future, camels will no longer be used as the best means of transportation. Also, it's not possible to raise a high smokestack house without land.